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Mercabarna Expands Training Offer for Companies

Mercabarna’s Training Area offers a wide variety of training courses to Food Unit businesses. The courses are aimed at both managers and employees, enabling them either to learn new skills or to update their knowledge and awareness of techniques and trends.

Postgraduate Course on Wholesale Food Business Management to be Offered Again

In October, the postgraduate course on Wholesale Food Company Management will be offered for the sixth time.

Interview with Ana Sancho, manager of the Barcelona Food Bank

Intense. This is how Ana Sancho describes the three months she has been at the helm of the Food Bank. The economic downturn shows no end in sight and this non-profit foundation –which collects surplus food products, to distribute them to the needy people around us– sees how, day by day, the food demand only increases. For this reason, the solidarity of companies such as those of Mercabarna is fundamental.

Interview with David Vázquez, Humana Area Manager in Catalonia

How often have you wondered what to do with the clothing you no longer use but you feel bad about throwing away because it’s still good as new? The humanitarian organisation Humana, which has had clothing drop-off containers in Mercabarna since 2007 (next to the florist’s in the commercial area), offers a good alternative for making supportive use of such garments.

The Food Bank is Looking for People like You

Mercabarna, the Association of Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Dealers (AGEM) and the Food Bank launched a campaign a year ago for businesses in the Central Fruit and Vegetable Market to encourage them to donate excess fresh produce. The goal was to help the Bank deal with the huge rise in demand for food for the needy that arose when the economic downturn began.

New Provisional Car Park at Mercabarna

Mercabarna has opened a provisional car park next to entrance K to the precinct in order to facilitate parking in the area where construction work on the Multiservice II building and development of the space that formerly housed the Flower Market are going on.

Laying of the First Stone of the Future House of Agriculture

The first stone of the future House of Agriculture, a facility that will serve as a meeting point for agricultural cooperatives and associations and which also aspires to become a forum for the dissemination of the opinions of Catalan farmers, was laid on 28 May.

Implementing Food Safety in Businesses

Food sector businesses are bound by law to implement their own controls to ensure compliance with health and safety regulations with regard to product handling and in their facilities.

Schara Opens Stand at Boqueria Market

Mercabarna meat purveyors La Charcutería Alemana Michael Schara opened a stand at the Boqueria Market in late May from where it sells its quality cooked pork products and huge range of cooked sausages.

Islamic Groups Learn about Halaal Slaughter at the Market

On 11 June four Moroccan and Pakistani organisations from Barcelona province, accompanied by representatives of the Department of Civil Rights at Barcelona City Council and the Halaal Institute, visited the Slaughterhouse to learn more about how calves and lamb are slaughtered at the facility.

Project to Detect the Technological Requirements and Improvements Needed in Mercabarna Companies

Mercabarna, IRTA (Institute of Agriculture and Food Research and Technology) – through its partner CENTA (Centre for New Food Technologies and Processes) – and KIMbcn, a company that carries out technological assessments, will implement a project to detect the technological requirements of precinct companies.

Mercabarna and Companies from the Precinct in ‘La salud al cistell’ on TV3

Since mid-May, Mercabarna has once again been sponsoring ‘La salud al cistell’ (Health in the Shopping Basket), an informative programme on the Catalan channel TV3.

2009 Financial Report Published

At the end of May, Mercabarna’s management published its Financial and Activity Report 2009.

Mercabarna Collaborates with the Impuls Project to Boost Employment

SOC, Catalonia's Employment Service, has granted a subsidy to Mercabarna's Training Area to carry out 46 occupational training courses, aimed primarily at the unemployed.

The Advantages of Working Closer to the Children at Mercabarna

The pace of life we lead today makes it very difficult to combine work and family life. For this reason, any companies that “invest” in measures to make this "task" easier for its employees are valued most positively.